Mother of 2-year-old on life support can't get into country to say goodbye because of travel ban

Abdullah Hassan is on life support at an Oakland hospital. (Council on American-Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley)

A mother can’t get into the country to say goodbye to her dying son because of President Trump’s travel ban.

Shaima Swileh, a Yemeni national living in Egypt, is being kept out of the United States, where her 2-year-old son Abdullah is on life support in Oakland with a genetic brain condition, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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Abdullah isn't expected to live much longer. (Council on American-Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley)

Abdullah’s father, a U.S. citizen, brought the young boy to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland about five months ago when doctors said he didn’t have much more time.

But the parents have waited to take Abdullah off life support until his mother can see him one more time.

“All she wishes is to hold his hand for the last time,” Abdullah’s father, Ali Hassan, 22, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “If I could take him off the ventilator and to the airplane, I would take him to her. I would let her see him. But he won’t make it.”

CAIR said it plans to file court documents to ask the government to expedite Swileh’s waiver request.

"Our hearts are breaking for this family," CAIR civil rights attorney Saad Sweilem. "The loss of a child is something no parent should experience, but not being able to be there in your child's last moments is unfathomably cruel.

A spokesperson for the State Department told the Daily News that the agency cannot discuss details of individual cases, but said the department “makes every effort to facilitate legitimate travel by international visitors.”

“We are also fully committed to administering U.S. immigration law and ensuring the integrity and security of our country’s borders,” the spokesperson said.

“All visa applications are adjudicated on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and other applicable laws. Applicants who are ineligible to receive a visitor visa under U.S. immigration law may apply for humanitarian parole from the Department of Homeland Security”